The King circumvents the separatist boycott and calls to preserve "unity" from Barcelona

Felipe VI has contradicted the Government's arguments to veto his presence at the delivery of judicial dispatches that took place in Barcelona two weeks ago and from which the head of state was excluded for fear of the separatist reaction to the imminent disqualification of the already former president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, and the commemoration of 1-O.

This Friday the Monarch presided with absolute institutional normality over the awards ceremony of the Barcelona New Economy Week (BNEW) economic show.

Felipe VI has dodged the lackluster pro-independence protests that have only managed to bring together about 200 hooded CDRs in the vicinity of the Estación de Francia in Barcelona, ​​where the event took place.

The forceful and coordinated police device -formed by the National Police, the Mossos d'Esquadra and the Barcelona Urban Guard- has prevented the attempted boycott of the radicals, who have had to settle for booing the King from their remote positions while he entered in the fairground flanked by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.

Already safe from secessionist harassment, Felipe VI has been received by the Government Delegate in Catalonia,

, by the Special Delegate of the Executive for the Free Zone of Barcelona and organizer of the event,

, and by the First Lieutenant of Barcelona , the also socialist

, who has distanced himself from his partner and mayor

, absent in the act as the Government and the Parliament, who have not sent any representative to receive the Monarch, as already announced.

Thus, the rejection of the visit of the head of State in Catalonia has been reduced to the already usual establishment of Catalan institutions, to the burning of photographs of the King in front of a hundred Catalan town councils and to a little multitudinous human chain, orchestrated by an ANC in low hours.

A reflection of the secessionist demobilization that could already be seen in the Diada and in the commemoration of the illegal referendum.

Police shield before the CDR.EFE

The president of the independence entity,

, has criticized, visibly upset, that Felipe VI "did not even see the protests" due to the action of the police forces.

"He is here to show that he can come to Catalonia and we are here to tell him that he is not welcome," he admitted.

Oblivious to the laments of secessionism, in a speech delivered in Spanish and Catalan, Felipe VI praised Barcelona as a "benchmark in innovation" and called to "demonstrate an image of unity" that allows generating a "stable environment" for the promotion of the economy after the pandemic.

He also encouraged the winners to work "together" to "advance the Spanish economy on the path of overcoming this crisis."

The spokesperson for the winners, Joan San Martín, “especially thanked the presence of His Majesty the King in Barcelona” to recognize the work of the entrepreneurs.

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